Tag Archive | "Brendan McCarthy"

Let us massage your eyeballs with some glorious Bren McCarthy art…

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Brendan McCarthy kindly shares some gorgeous artwork with us, including Imaginary Story (as if they aren’t all imaginary, as Brendan commented) set in the Silver Age of Superman (above) and U-Babe 3, a  “great underwater adventure!” (below): But much as I enjoyed these I have to say I think this one is the piece de [...]

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Brendan McCarthy’s unused Grant Morrison script for Doom Patrol….

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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…. and he’s doodled all over it: From the FuckyeahGrantMorrison Tumblr. Originally published on The Strangeness Of Brendan McCarthy fansite where Brenden had this to say: “I found this DOOM PATROL script the other day that I had doodled all over, from Grant Morrison… It was an episode that Grant wrote for me to draw [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Anopther weekend, another selection of cracking artwork I’ve seen during the week around and about the Interthing…. (Bruce Timm gorgeousness from the very, very worth bookmarking Grantbridge Street Tumbler) (Christopher Jones does a whole Doctor Who / Bill & Ted mashup. Via Mark Kardwell.) (Charley Brown and Snoopy by Boulet. Via Drawn) (Brendan McCarthy’s Dredd [...]

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What to get the comics fan who has everything for Xmas: Bren McCarthy art

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Brendan McCarthy drops us a line to say that comic art dealer Albert Moy is holding a sale of a diverse range of Bren’s fabulous artwork from across his career, which Bren tells us will “includes outtakes from my DC Solo book, Marvel’s [Spider-Man] Fever, character designs like The Spark and Battery Girl, some great [...]

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McCarthy, Ewing, D’Israeli: Doctor What

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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As we blogged last week the brilliant Brendan McCarthy has returned to 2000 AD, collaborating with Al Ewing on Doctor What in Judge Dredd. This week’s issue, Prog 1713, boasts this fab cover by the equally fine D’Israeli, done after the style of McCarthy. D’Israeli channelling McCarthy, with more McCarthy/Ewing goodness inside? Oh drokk, yeah, [...]

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McCarthy, Dredd, Dr What?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Look at that art and look at those colours – oh yes, unmistakably the excellent Brendan McCarthy! Bren has collaborated with that fine chap Al Ewing to create a new Judge Dredd tale called Dr What?, which features a time-travelling doctor in a Mega City portaloo changing history (no, I have no idea where they [...]

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Brendan McCarthy talks to Mark Kardwell

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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With the collected edition of the great Brendan McCarthy’s weird and wonderful Spider-Man: Fever due to hit the shelves this week, Mark Kardwell talks to Bren: “Mark: This is your first piece for Marvel Comics. What was it like working for the fabled “House of Ideas”? Brendan: Other than to cut a few lines of [...]

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Anyone want to publish the new Brendan McCarthy project?

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Well, someone, somewhere, if there’s any justice (or indeed taste) in the world of comics today, needs to be getting the cheque book and the contracts ready – Brendan McCarthy, wonderful, marvellous, legendary artist has a new superhero series called FUBAR that he’s looking to tie up with a publisher. Brendan says “I’m looking for [...]

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Atomic. Bacterial. Chemical.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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(ABC Warriors – the opening to the Bougainville massacre from 2000AD, by Pat Mills, with art from the excellent Mick McMahon, (c) Rebellion) If, like me, you’re one of the original 2000 AD generation who were there for the arrival of Thrill Power to British comics back in the day, then that title above will [...]

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McCarthy’s Spider-Man & Doctor Strange – gorgeous.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Spider-man Fever Issue 1 by Brendan McCarthy Marvel Comics It starts off like any other Spider-Man book – Spidey in New York being tackled by one of his famous gallery of villains – The Vulture this time. But it quickly gets a little more interesting, when a nearby Dr. Strange opens a long lost book [...]

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Batman and Robin

Friday, April 9, 2010

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New Comics Day is a day later than usual in the UK this week, due to the Easter Monday holiday and subsequent delivery problems caused by the UK’s main distribution routes being choked by millions of fluffy bunnies carrying baskets. But it’s worth waiting for -  there’s Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Batman and Robin: [...]

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Marvellous covers…. and even more marvellous McCarthy

Saturday, April 3, 2010

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Mark Kardwell pointed out a slew of great looking comic covers from the Marvel solicitations, and he’s absolutely right, these are good. Kaare Andrews does a strange, strange look for Emma Frost, even without the baby sick. And Paul Pope doing Marvel covers is great. Actually Paul Pope doing anything is great. And it gets [...]

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We’ve got the Fever… The fabulous art of Brendan McCarthy

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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We’ve mentioned several times here in recent weeks how stoked we all are at seeing Brendan McCarthy‘s fab artwork gracing the pages of Marvel and judging by the posts on various comics sites and Twitter so are a lot of other readers. Well Brendan has kindly taken time out from his sojourn in LA (where [...]

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Paradax is back ….. fingers crossed

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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Missed this a week or so back; Mark Kadwell has some gorgeous Brendan McCarthy artwork that McCarthy is using to shop around Hollywood in support of a possible Paradax motion capture CGI TV series. Ooooh….. There’s always room to put up some McCarthy artwork here. But it’s really a terrible crime that there’s not more [...]

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Robot 6 talks with Brendan McCarthy

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Robot 6‘s Chris Mautner talks with a man who is a huge favourite of pretty much all of the online crew here, the one and only Brendan McCarthy; you will want to go and read this! “Chris: Obviously it’s not just coincidence that the two stars of Spider-Man: FEVER happen to be the two Marvel [...]

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